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Bots And Humans On Social Media, Lale Madahali
Bots And Humans On Social Media, Lale Madahali
Interdisciplinary Informatics Faculty Proceedings & Presentations
Social networks are an important part of today’s life. They are used for entertainment, getting the news, advertisements, and branding for businesses and individuals alike. Research shows that automated accounts, also known as bots, contribute to the content spread on social media allowing the the environment pollution and public opinion manipulation. This research aims at investigating bots’ behavior on Twitter and examine how different and similar they are compared to humans. I will investigate their underlying network, whether it is an information network or social network. In the second step, I attempt to answer whether they follow the structure of …
Application Of The Benford’S Law To Social Bots And Information Operations Activities, Lale Madahali, Margeret Hall
Application Of The Benford’S Law To Social Bots And Information Operations Activities, Lale Madahali, Margeret Hall
Interdisciplinary Informatics Faculty Proceedings & Presentations
Benford's law shows the pattern of behavior in normal systems. It states that in natural systems digits' frequency have a certain pattern such that the occurrence of first digits in numbers are unevenly distributed. In systems with natural behavior, numbers begin with a “1” are more common than numbers beginning with “9”. It implies that if the distribution of first digits deviate from the expected distribution, it is indicative of fraud. It has many applications in forensic accounting, stock markets, finding abnormal data in survey data, and natural science. We investigate whether social media bots and Information Operations activities are …
Structural Bot Detection In Social Networks, Lale Madahali
Structural Bot Detection In Social Networks, Lale Madahali
Interdisciplinary Informatics Faculty Proceedings & Presentations
Social network platforms are a major part of toady’s life. They are usually used for entertainment, news, advertisements, and branding for businesses and individuals alike. However, use of automated accounts, also known as bots, pollute this environment and avoid having a reliable clean online world. In this work, I address the problem of detecting bots in online social networks.